World view/world line

Revenge of Dragoon - (Japanese version) Drag-on Dragoon (English version) Drakengard

The first generation was released in 2003. The sales volume of the series is by no means a "hit", and there are not many Fensi, and it is even less in foreign countries, but those who like this series are super fans. Tickets for previous concerts were sold out immediately. The producer was also frightened and regretted that the concert should be held in a larger venue.

Yoko Taro - the director of Nier Story and the director of Revenge of the Dragon Knight 1 and 3.

(Yoko Taro did not participate in Revenge of the Dragon Knight 2)

What is the relationship between the Revenge of the Dragon Knight series and NieR?

Revenge of the Dragon Knight 1 was not originally released It was planned to be a series, so Yoko Taro set up different endings.

Among them, ending E is when the protagonist (and the dragon mount) are fighting against the big devil. In the battle space, they jump to Shinjuku, Japan, at 3:01pm on June 12, 2003. (The setting of this world line is that up to this event, everything is no different from reality)

After the protagonist defeated the big devil, he was directly hit by a missile from the air force. Long's body was immediately recovered by the Japanese government for study.

Conclusion: Magic (something that cannot be explained) will have no good results if it is brought to reality. A new virus slowly spread from Shinjuku, Japan, with a mortality rate of 100%.

Yes, the ending E of Revenge of the Dragon Knight 1 is the background story of NieR 1 (The Crisis of Humanity).

The time point of the series (an approximate):

The year 1000 - Those who have played the game "Revenge of the Dragon Knight 3" (4 endings) must not be very clear about how to connect. 1st generation. That’s because the (5th) ending of Continental 1 is a novel.

1099 - Ending E of the game "Revenge of the Dragon Knight 1" jumps to 2003 Shinjuku.

1117 - The game "Revenge of the Dragon Knight 2" can treat the second generation as another world line.

2003 - The first-generation protagonist appears in Shinjuku with the red dragon and the first-generation demon king.

A lot of things happened when we got to Neil.

- The red dragon brought unknown factors to the real world, causing the virus.

- People infected with the virus either die or become super violent.

- A high wall was built in Shinjuku to control the virus. (The Walls are called Walls of Jericho)

- The Walls are destroyed and the United States and Japan agree to drop a nuclear bomb on Shinjuku.

- The virus did not stop, and people who went crazy with the virus began to appear around the world.

- Confirmed the existence of Red-Eye, leading the mad people.

- The existence of "parallel world" has been confirmed from the study of red dragons.

- The solution has been studied, which is to separate the human body and soul, and then combine them back into "human beings" after the virus disappears.

- All humans practice this method.

Year 3465 - The protagonist of the game "NieR" finally chose the path of death for all mankind.

Year 4198 - The last human dies.

(From here I guess it is "NieR: Automata", there will be a little explanation...)

5012-Space War: Alien invaders begin to attack the earth .

Emil copied many clones of himself to fight against foreign invaders.

11939 - The 14th Machine War, humans were exiled to the moon, and combat robots were developed to fight against "mechanical life forms". The war lasted for 6 years and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

11941 - 126th Descent Mission. (Pearl Harbor Invasion)

Long before the new game was released, Yoko Taro wrote the story of the stage play. The name of the performing group, the title of the stage play and the character in the play are all called YoRHa.

What is "YoRHa"? YoRHa is the name of the group that sings the soundtrack of Revenge of the Dragon Knight 3.

The stage play is about the Pearl Harbor invasion of 11941 by 16 YoRHa robots.

Only YoRHa No. 2 and No. 4 survived. Among them, YoRHa No. 2’s memory was of living happily with her grandma, just like Kenin. Is there any relationship? I don’t know.

So when the new game was first released and "Automata" (mechanical/automatic dolls) appeared, it turned out that the stage play was the world view of Nier's new game.

Small supplement (Famitsu magazine announced new characters on December 22):

The character 'Anemone' who gives players side tasks in the revolutionary army camp is actually not a new character. She has been in The live-action stage play mentioned above has appeared before.

Her life and death are unknown in the last scene, and she seems to be continuing to fight against mechanical life forms.

There is currently no clear time point for the release of the "NieR: Automata" game, but it should occur between 11939 and 11945.

(Ishikawa Yui mentioned "11945" when reading her character's lines at the concert)